To what extent does your company facilitate social networking between employees split by geographical or organisational distance, or with (existing or potential) clients and business partners? What’s the value of this social capital to the company (i.e. the connections within and between social networks as well as connections among individuals). How does it change the [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Challenges of ‘open systems’ for creating value
Posted in Collaboration, Engagement, Leadership, Web 2.0 on January 23 2009 | 2 Comments »
Oliver Young has kicked off an interesting debate with his post “Web 2.0 Represents A Fundamental Rethinking Of Business, And The Theory Of The Firm.” Young believes that “[o]ver the next 10 to 15 years, on the back of social software, we will go from a fundamentally closed value creation system to a fundamentally [...]
Business will be different in 5 years – fundamentally different
Posted in Collaboration, Leadership, Learning, enterprise 2.0, tagged business, change, Collaboration, Google, Learning on January 9 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Think for a minute about how you used to book your holidays, buy your music, find an address or select insurance – 10 or even 5 years ago? Do you even bother to search for things these days or do you just rely on the recommendations from your network via Facebook, Twitter, Zemanta or even [...]